Food Safety Quality Technician - Rotating Shift

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Job Title: Food Safety Quality Technician - Rotating Shift
Location: Lititz, PA, Mid-Atlantic United States, USA

Company: Cargill, Inc
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Technician
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill's food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Technician - Rotating Shift will complete moderately complex analytical and laboratorytesting in support of the food safety quality and operational teams. In this role, you will perform routine analysis ofproduct testing and will check and monitor instrumentation performance, conduct tests and document results intodatabases and communicate test results.

Key Accountabilities

Conduct routine quantitative and qualitative inspections and laboratory tests on raw materials, in process andfinal products independently and support more complex trials and experiments under intermediate supervision.
Ensure compliance programs for all individual testing, which includes monitoring adherence to regulations andother procedural food safety compliance.
Interpret and document results of tests into active databases and communicate results to internal customers asrequired.
Run calibration checks, preventive maintenance tasks and simple repair to analytical instrumentation andmaintain customer specifications books.
Help develop food and feed safety, quality and regulatory culture and collaborate cross functionally to build,maintain and improve an effective food safety, quality and regulatory culture.
Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under generalsupervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
Minimum of two years of related work experience
Able and willing to work 12 hours rotating shift
Able and willing to work weekends and holidays
Experience working with laboratory instruments and practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards.
Strong computer program professional knowledge: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Outlook.
Ability to read and interpret documents (safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and proceduremanuals).
Write routine reports and correspondence.

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